Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,433, Deodate Gaylord, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
★ Gaylord, Deodate
S 17433
Carded
CONTENTS

P 17433
INVALID.
am
File No. 17433
Deedate Gaylord
Per Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index: Vol. 1 , Page 437
[Arrangement of 1870.]

17536 Connecticut
Leodate Gaylord of Milton in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Gilbert of the Reg't. commanded by Col. (Mead) in the Connecticut line for 19 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Augt. 1833 and del d B Isaac of Litchfield Conn Present
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 $126. 66 Pemi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep '33 31. 66
$158. 32
{ Revolutionary Claim, Not June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Isaac Cromwell Clerk Book E Vol. 3 Page 16

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } p.
On this 18 th day of August 1832 Personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Norwalk in said County now sitting Deodeth Gaylord a resident of Wilton in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged Seventy two years who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 that he intends the service of the United States under the following names. Offers and served as herein stated
That in the fall of the year 1776 after I became 16 years of age I was drafted in said Wilton into a Company under the Command of Capt Samuel Boutwell was marched to Norwalk and was there on guard for one month In the Spring of the year 1777. I enlisted in said Wilton into Capt. Nathan Gilbert Company and served in said Company in guarding and protecting the sea coast and on the time until the end or close of the Revolutionary War part of the time under Col. Ellcomb of Wilton and part of the time under Col. John McCleod I was born in said town of Wilton July 20. 1760 Records in my family bible have always laid in said Wilton and now lie there
I was in the battle when Danbury was burnt and Gen Wooster killed. I was sick at the time Fairfield and Norwalk was burnt. I never saw any written discharge nor have any documentary evidence of my service.
I the said Deodeth Gaylord hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the any State enemy of any State
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year above said Deodeth Gaylord

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } Probate Court. District of Norwalk July 18. 1833. Personally appeared the within named Diodate Gaylord and being duly sworn in open Court according to Law depose and say in explanation of his declaration herein set forth.
That on the Month of November 1776. was drafted in said Wilton as a private soldier into Capt. Samuel Bouton's Company Col. John Mear Major Stephen D'John Gen. Silliman and was on guard at said Norwalk. One Month In the Spring of the year 1777 I enlisted in said Wilton as a private soldier into Capt. Nathan Gilbert Company Col. John Mear Col. Stephen D'John Gen. Silliman and was on guard at Norwalk and made fifteen campaigns at Rose Brook and on the lines and was in active & constant service for the United States for more than one year and six months
Diodate Gaylord
adm 20 19 mar 36 6333
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State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss Probate Court District of To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas, August 14, 1832, Personally appeared Nathan Gilbert of Wilton in said County aged 84 years and being duly sworn according to Law do hereby say in open Court, that he is well acquainted with Deborah Gaylord of said Wilton. That in the Spring of the Year 1777 said Gaylord entered into the Company under my Command in said Wilton and served in said Company faithfully until the close of the Revolutionary War in guarding and protecting the said Court, and on the lines - Sworn & Subscribed the _____ Nathan Gilbert day & year aforesaid & that said Nathan Gilbert is a credible Person Benj. Soper Judge